[network] @curiouschloride | I was soaring ever higher | day 348 [open] [cw religion-driven murder]

[motherserpent]

cw: religious extremism; suicide and murder linked to religious cause; sexual harassment

[Tess looks much the same as she did when she was last seen alive. Red lines in the shape of fractals cover her body, her eyes completely red as well. There's a large feathered serpent coiled around her shoulders and an unimpressed look on her face. Anyone familiar with the columbarium might recognize the rows of plaques behind her.]

Alright, so I've had enough of playing mortal -- walking around on foot, making people breakfast, dying. I'm done, moving on, next plan. For those of you who actually fell for that whole line cook thing -- I'm Tess, Goddess of the Search, Mother Serpent, Child of Ragnarok, and Lifeblood of the Wayward -- and life blood's what we're here to talk about right now. See, my essences have been all kinds of unbalanced since I got dragged into this Hel-hole -- too much human, not enough divine. And we all know humans are basically useless, am I right?

But that's where you come in, because believe it or not, you little bastards do have the occasional use. Whoever brings me back into my power I will remember -- they will have my blessing and my protection and I will take them with me when I destroy this place.

It's nothing hard, nothing complicated, nothing one or another of you hasn't done before. There are ten or twelve liters of blood in the human body. Spill it in my name. Because hey -- even if it doesn't work, at least we'll have learned something, right?

[When she smiles, it's the same easy smile as always, the same face that makes dumb puns and offers of breakfast. Whatever has changed, Tess is still Tess...but sees nothing wrong with anything she's just said.]

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[zunesareawesome]

[...the town! It's the town, it's doing this to her! Was it because of the red lines? The red eyes?]

No, it's the town that's doing this to you, it's done something--

[--he has red eyes too, no no no, he can't think about what if--he can't be like Ego again, he can't--]

No! Never! I don't want to be like him. And it's not like his powers worked that way anyway. I don't have the light anymore, it disappeared when we killed Ego. [Even though the Cat suggested that might not be the case. And the town throwing him in with the other immortals. Other than that--]

And you--you're not like this, so you have to fight it--

[motherserpent]

[Tess listens to all of this with an utter lack of urgency in her demeanor.]

Of course it's the town, dumbass. Earth gods, I swear, you're all dumb as a sack of rocks.

I died and lost my baggage, and I'm going to take advantage of that and get done what needs to get done, put an end to this. This place is killing you, but you can't even spare one mortal life? That's why we're all still stuck here, just because I was too timid to take the natural course.

[zunesareawesome]

Oooookay, clearly you're not in your right mind, that's cool, maybe you can like, not encourage people to kill people until this ends? Whatever this-- [he waves a hand--] --is?

Mortal lives are incredibly important, how can--

[--this isn't working. He's not gonna get through to her this way, obviously. Maybe he can get through to her in a different way. Maybe a more stupid, ridiculous way, but he has to try something.]

They're important because they're all mine and you can't have them.

[motherserpent]

[That gets her attention. It's stupid and obviously false, obviously a distraction, but it strikes at something instinctual.]

They are not; you haven't done a damned thing to claim them!

[zunesareawesome]

Haven't I?

[The smuggest of looks.]

You've seen me give my music out? Just check on the network from even before you got here.

[motherserpent]

And what gifts do they give you? Not trades or barters, gifts.

[zunesareawesome]

Uh--

Music! And stories!

[It wasn't exactly a lie, Stephen gave him that weird egg song and Flynn gave him the best bedtime story ever that one time...]

[motherserpent]

...Fuck.

They're not all yours. I know not all of them like you.

[zunesareawesome]

[...what? It's actually working?]

Well, you can have House. And Beckett.

[motherserpent]

That's not really your choice to make.

@hotstud_xxx; text

[rubikscomplex]

is this the time to mention i promised my soul to satan
like back in the 90s

[motherserpent]

Lu's a friend of mine; he'll understand.

[rubikscomplex]

i dunno, man
he got me laid by a smoking hot chick
that's a lot to overlook

[bookofnope]

One day he's going to show up here and then you'll both be sorry.

[motherserpent]

Not really? I broke the guy out of jail; he owes me.

[rubikscomplex]

please tell me "jail" is actually "hell"
and you started ragnarok

[That is absolutely not how mythologies fit together, but whatever. Beckett is being ignored as an attempted cockblock for the moment.]

[motherserpent]

[All at once her expression goes cold and hard.]

Ragnarok was the tricksters' doing. And no, us releasing Lu had nothing to do with it.

[Their attempt to save the people of Crete, on the other hand....]

[rubikscomplex]

[Well, now, that's interesting.]

you didn't help out the trickster, did you?
i mean
you being a whole blood goddess and all
seems like it would've been a great time to get your sacrifice on
people dying left and right, anyway

[motherserpent]

[The world fallen into chaos around them -- leylines cracking open, people dying by the thousands -- no purpose beyond the destruction itself, the entire world of her childhood gone -- ]

You shut your whore mouth!

[rubikscomplex]

i'm typing
just fyi
and i prefer "hooker mouth"

i'm taking it you got tricked?
and here i thought that might be one of your domains
unless they got to you through the whole sex domain thing
seems like you could be distracted pretty easily

[If her harassment of Flynn is anything to go by.]

[motherserpent]

You -- shitty little -- rat! Thing!

[The wrath of a goddess, ladies and gentlemen.]

Fuck you and fuck your mother, you don't know anything about it!

[And she disconnects. Congrats, House, you got a literal bloodthirsty deity to ragequit.]

[rubikscomplex]

[Check that one off the bucket list.]